The Second Shift

Working Families and the Revolution at Home

By: Arlie Hochschild, Anne Machung

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication.

Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. Hochschild's examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring in paid work, child care, and housework, working mothers put in one month of labor more than their spouses do every year. Updated for a workforce that is now half female, this edition cites a range of updated studies and statistics, with an afterword from Hochschild that addresses how far working mothers have come since the book's first publication, and how much farther we all still must go.

Sadly still relevant

Even almost 50 years later this book about household division of labor is still relevant. Great insight into how gender ideals and perception changes one’s participation in work, parenting, and household labor.

Not helpful for working parents

I was expecting some form of help or guidance from this book as a working parent. But the book is a divisive anti Dad rant and provides no help for struggling families. Terrible waste of time.

A book for the 1990s

Every study that was referenced took place between 1960-1980s not relevant to a book published in 2019...